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Coalition for Networked Information  
Information Policies:  A Compilation of Position Statements, Principles, 
Statutes, and Other Pertinent Statements 
 
 
 
Copyright Royalty Tribunal 
 
Copyright Royalty Tribunal 
Suite 450 
1111 Twentieth Street, NW.,  
Washington, DC  20036 
202-653-5175. 
 
Source:  U.S. Government Manual, Washington, DC, 1990/91, page 64. 
 
 
The Copyright Royalty Tribunal was established by act of October 19,  
1976 (17 U.S.C. 801).  The Tribunal is composed of five Commissioners  
appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. 
 
The Tribunal adjusts copyright royalty rates for cable retransmission of  
broadcast signals in recording new versions of previously recorded songs 
and for noncommercial educational stations that broadcast musical, pictorial, 
graphic, and sculptural works. 
 
The Tribunal also has stand-by authority to adjust the rates for jukeboxes  
and satellite retransmission of broadcast signals to satellite homedish 
owners if the parties are unable to reach voluntary agreements among 
themselves.  In addition, the Tribunal distributes the royalty fees 
deposited with the Copyright Office by cable operators and satellite 
carriers to the proper copyright owners. 
 
In making its distribution determinations, the Tribunal considers the  
harm incurred by the copyright owners, the benefit to the cable satellite 
user, the marketplace value of the work, the time the work was aired, and 
the quality of the broadcast. 
 
[Actual legislation appears in the Copyright Act of 1976.] 
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